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Heritage and Alumni Group

HAVE YOU APPLIED FOR A VCE SCHOLARSHIP YET

The RSC Heritage and Alumni group is proud to again offer VCE Scholarships to selected Year 10/11 students seeking to extend their learning.

 

Information will be on the website along with an application form due in by Friday 18th October 2019.

These scholarships are especially referenced for students with a community spirit and a willingness to exert oneself against a challenge.

 

Application forms are available from the college by contacting the college on 9870 2002.

Interviews will be held in November and we invite you to consider applying.

 

It is the contribution of funds by former RSC/RHS students that make this scholarship offer possible.

 

MOCK INTERVIEWS FOR STUDENTS ARE AVAILABLE.

 

Here is a timely opportunity to experience a trial interview before you go to your real job interview.

The RSC Heritage and Alumni Group offers students leaving school the opportunity to experience a ‘trial’ interview before having a real interview.  The feedback from students who have had these interviews has been good.

 

You can arrange an interview at a time that suits you; talk to your Careers Teacher to make an appointment.  These trial interviews demonstrate the interview process and provide valuable information on how to get the best from your job interview.

 

This is a great opportunity provided by experienced interviewers.

 

Barry Ring

Convenor - RSC Heritage and Alumni Group.

Green Team Action

The Green Team are busy getting ready for Ringwood Secondary College’s annual Enviro-Fest! Enviro-Fest is a whole school event, designed to encourage staff and students at RSC to learn more about the environment and sustainability and to improve our environmental footprint as a school community.

 

This year, Enviro-Fest will be held in week 6 on Friday the 23rd of August. We have a range of fun activities planned for the day, including DIY cookie decoration in the hall, games and music on the quadrangle and a movie in the hall at lunch time.

 

We encourage staff and students to bring nude food lunches for the day, or to enjoy the delicious vegetarian canteen menu.

 

We will also be running a clothes drive with Closet Cleanout throughout week 6. Students and Staff are encouraged to sort through their closets and to bring any unwanted clothes or shoes to the Link Corridor (the corridor between the staffroom and main office) by Friday the 23rd of August.

We are looking forward to what should be another great Enviro-Fest. 

Thank you for your involvement, together we can make a difference!

 

RSC Green Team

Facilities

The preparation for commencement of the new Senior School is going well. Staff from the old 100s block are scattered around the school in new offices and Cisco/IT is running out of the RT building. The new offices including Careers, Middle School and International have proven to be a hit with staff and the addition of new furniture over coming weeks will further enhance these areas.

Staff are stripping items of value from the old buildings such as airconditioners, furniture items and heaters and re-locating them around the school to update areas needing improvement.

Bring on the new building!

 

Chris Salisbury

Facilities Manager

From the Chaplain

Back to school and back at it!

Lots happening around the school this term with building work and moving rooms. For those of you still looking for us, Breakfast Club is now in Room 404. This is a great new facility to use with new opportunities.

 

Other big events coming up are the Maroondah, Billy Cart Challenge and South East Melbourne Phoenix basketball clinic on the 20th of August lunchtime. Change and busyness can add a lot of pressure in our world but can also add new life and new opportunity.

 

I love spring which feels like it's around the corner almost... This too represents new life and change and opportunity as everything wakes up after being dormant over the colder months of the year. I hope you too find new opportunities as you embrace change and new challenges these coming months.  

 

Adam Bryant

Indonesian

Year 9 Indonesian Excursion

On Wednesday the 19th of June, the Indonesian class of Year 9 went to the city by train to visit the Indonesian Consulate followed by a visit to an Indonesian restaurant called Pondok Rempah. On arrival, we were greeted by Prima Januar who is the Vice Consul for information, social and cultural affairs. I learnt that Indonesia has 5 companies with ‘unicorn’ status. (A unicorn company is a company that is worth over 1 billion dollars) compared to Australia who only has 1 ‘unicorn’ company.  I also won a beautiful sarong from getting a question right in a trivia quiz. Indonesians are very generous and they also provided us with some snacks. Followed by this we participated in a Gamelan workshop. (Gamelan is traditional music from Central and East Java, and Bali.) I played the Bonang which is fairly similar to banging a stick onto metal bowls.

After this we travelled by tram to Pondok Rempah and Indonesian restaurant. I had a delicious plate of Pondok- Rempah-style style stir-fry black pepper beef and rice.  Thanks to Bu Lundie for organising this excursion and Pak Jamieson for coming along on the day!

 

Caitlin Dowding

 

Celebrating Languages Lunch

On behalf of the Languages faculty staff, I would like to say congratulations once again to all of our students who were nominated for the Celebrating Languages Lunch held on August 7th.

 

Each year the Languages staff have the opportunity to nominate one student per French/Indonesian class to be publicly acknowledged (and rewarded with a yummy lunch provided by the canteen!) for their commitment to their Languages studies. It was great to see all of these students celebrating their success with one another!

 

Jessica Lundie

Head of Languages